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New Short Story Collection "Return to Harikoa Bay" available now.![Cover - Return to Harikoa Bay](../images/covers/harikoa_cover.jpg)
Coming Home in the Dark - Now available on Netflix
A feature film directed by James Ashcroft based on the Owen Marshall short story.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021.
Owen Marshall is one of New Zealand's leading fiction writers.
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"Quite simply the most able and the most successful exponent of
the short story
currently writing in New Zealand"
- Michael King
"New Zealand's best prose writer"
- Vincent O'Sullivan
"I'm an admirer of Owen Marshall's literature, with my favourite stories, chapters, etc"
- Janet Frame
"I find myself exclaiming over and again with delight at the precision, the beauty,
the near perfection of his writing"
- Fiona Kidman
"Marshall is a writer who speaks with equal intensity to the unbearable loveliness
and malevolence of life"
- Carolyn Bliss, World Literature Today
Gimmerburn Road with thanks to Grahame Sydney